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Greater Lansing Area MLK Holiday Commission

Commission Chairpersons, Speakers and Themes • 2012-2023

Chairpersons/Themes Speakers
1-16-12 Elaine Hardy Judge Joe Brown
“I Am a Dreamkeeper” Jurist and Community Leader

1-21-13 Elaine Hardy Ms. Jacque Reid
“Moving the Dream Forward in Pursuit Journalist
of Truth, Justice and Compassion”

1-20-14 Elaine Hardy Mr. Ernest Gideon Green
“Our Lives Begin to End the Moment We Member of the Little Rock Nine
Become Silent about Things That Matter”

1-19-15 Elaine Hardy Mr. Henry “Hank” Thomas
“The Ultimate Measure of a Man is Not Member of the Freedom Riders
Where He Stands in Moments of Comfort
and Convenience, but Where He Stands at
Times of Challenge and Controversy”

1-18-16 Elaine Hardy Ambassador Andrew Young
“True Peace Is Not The Absence Of Tension; Minister, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,
It Is The Presence Of Justice” Former U.S. Congressman and Former Mayor of Atlanta, GA

1-16-17 Elaine Hardy Myrlie Evers Williams
“We Must Learn to Live Together as Brothers Civil Rights Activist, Widow of Civil Rights Activist,
or Perish Together as Fools” Medgar Evers

1-15-18 Elaine Hardy Dr. Diane Nash
“We Must Accept Finite Disappointment, Freedom Rider, Activist, Founder of student nonviolent
but Never Lose Infinite Hope” coordinating committee

1-21-19 Elaine Hardy Governor L. Douglas Wilder
“Be the Change You Want to See America’s First African American Elected Governor
in the World”

1-20-20 Elaine Hardy Congressman John Lewis
“There Comes a Time When Civil Rights Leader, Conscience of the House, Humanitarian,
Silence is a Betrayal” “Foot Soldier” of the Civil Rights Movement

1-18-21 Elaine Hardy Dr. Bernice A. King
“Out of a Mountain of Despair, Chief Executive Officer of the King Center, Atlanta, GA,
a Stone of Hope” Daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1-15-22 Elaine Hardy Carlotta Walls LaNier, Ernest G. Green
“In the Long Run, Justice Finally Must Dr. Terrence J. Roberts and Minnijean Brown Trickey
Spring from a New Moral Climate” Members of The Little Rock Nine

1-16-23 Elaine Hardy Fred Gray
“Now is the time to lift our nation from the Civil Rights Champion, Attorney of Rosa Parks and participants
quicksand of racial injustice to the solid of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
rock of brotherhood.”

8 • 38th Annual MLK Day of Celebration